Re: nautilus-cd-burner for gnome 2.4

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:22, Christian Rose wrote:
> mån 2003-09-08 klockan 01.21 skrev Dafydd Harries:
> > > Except that I got the substitution wrong (ie. the string to replace was
> > > right already) in my ChangeLog entry, so Jordi is taking the piss ;)
> > > 
> > > Just one stupid question: does this count as a string change? Because,
> > > in the end, translators will get a different .po file...
> >
> > My understanding is that "string change" means "change to a string
> > marked for translation" - i.e., in PO file terminology, an actual
> > msgid. Hence this is not a string change.

I know what a msgid is, I was a translator before doing code, and I
still "translate" for the en_GB team ;)

> Correct. If all changes to po files due to changes in the code, but not
> necessarily in the actual msgids, were to also be counted as string
> changes, string freeze would effectively be a code freeze, since the
> line numbers for messages change when code is added/removed... ;-)
> So no, string freeze is only broken if actual msgids are added or
> changed.

Cool, thanks for the clarification.

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